Monday, August 29, 2005

For everyone concerned about Loved ones,We are working hard to get information right now. We just spoke with the mayor of Biloxi and he doesn't know anything yet himself. All communications are down for the entire coastline except for emergency responders' radios and our satellite phone.I'm sorry I have to tell you that you will be spending a painful night with no information. I promise we will get you the info as soon as it becomes available. Tomorrow morning the assessment will begin.The only thing I can tell you for sure is that the houses of at least two people in our newsroom no longer exist and we only have a skeleton staff down here. We don't know the fortunes of many of our colleagues.Check out the Sun Herald website and I'll also post it here.

My family is in Gulfport and I am stuck in Birmingham, waiting for the roads to open so I can begin the slow crawl back to them.

My neice, Meggan Stolarski, works in the newsroom at WLOX. I realize you are inundated with requests for information. But if you have any way to get in touch with Meggan to find out if our family is ok, I would be sincerely grateful. I am especially concerned about my 84-year old parents who rode the storm out in their home on Courthouse Road, between Magnolia and Washington (about a mile north of Pass Road).

Thanks for any info you can offer. And God bless you for providing such comfort to those of us who aren't with our loved ones. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Please give Dave Purdy a big hug for me.

My parents are the only residents in downtown Gulfport. Last I heard they were on the second floor with all the windows blown out and the first floor was flooded. I haven't heard anything since. They live at 1515-25 Ave.(highway 49). I hear many buildings have collapesed and just want to know they are ok. Can someone help me? I live in St. Pete, Fl. Their names are Sherry Trullander and Jerry Halderman. They were also with 2 friends. My phone # is 727-526-8442 if someone has any info. Please let me know.

Looking for Police Officer Gillis' mom and dad ( J.R. and Barbara Gillis.... and their dog daisy. ) They lived just on the ocean side of the train tracks by the retired military center... .and also.. family.....Tommy and Debbie Speirs on the other side of Pass Road.. Also Artie Gray... do not have current address.

I'm looking for information on several of my friends in Biloxi/Gulfport. I'm a recent former resident. Please, if anyone has heard from John Gipson, a Long Beach band director and/or Denny Shaughnessy, owner of Shaughnessy Printing on Caillavet St. in Biloxi.

I have a number of friends that are stationed at the seabee base , and i am just looking for some kind of info on them . I saw the pic you have of the sports pub . I use to go there when i was stationed in Gulfport . Please help me out . Thank you .

Mobile phones users in Katrina affected Area Codes,(especially prepay users) are demographically and geographically,out of minutes, have no airtime, on second batteries.The lucky have some capability to re-charge.

Big Mobile Phone providers are proposing a limited number of methodsto deal with a National Catastrophe impacting oil and food exports and imports.The oil reserves themselves are in and amongst this destruction in the salt domes.

Old School, the phone companies could easily pump free minutes into all phoneswith the same programs they send you all that spam with.

An immidiate and global distribution of FREE MINUTES and FREE AIRTIMEto all phones in the Katrina devestated Area codes and Katrina evacuation routesmust be implemented now. Out of minutes = no communication = disorganization

Physical distribution of cards will create a fast and dangerous trade market.The people who distribute these cards could seed more volitility into this situation.The people distributing these cards in the long-term are in a dangerous physical situation.

The people of this nation affected by National Security and National Disaster issuesas a result of Hurricaine Katrina must have MANY to MANY communication NOW.

Our phone service is so capitalized and compartmentalized,it seems very inneffective at this time compared to a wide open100% free phone system. And I'm not advocating a 100%free phone market of any sort, I just want you to thinkabout the difference it would make and how closewe can get to that, in the shortest amount of time.For the purposes of Katrina RESCUE and RELIEF.

Young people with prepay 'Virgin Mobile' phones as well asthe markets of Tracone, prepay markets, are not being affordedthe opportunity to use their EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION DEVICES,especially in the long-term. These markets must be sustainedwith the Automatic scripting of free minutes pumped into the phones,globally with no regard for economic strata, race, etc..

Again, the pre-pay Market is made up of the poor, elderly, infirm,handicapped, low and fixed income, children, etc ...

The phones are lifelines to order in the short and longterm.

The FCC must require all phone companies to fill all phones in thearea codes affected by Katrina, especially flooded New Orleans,with free minutes. This must be done globally withoutregard for race or economic class. The AUTOMATED scriptingon Mobile phone service providers administrative computers topush free minutes and free airtime globally to all Mobile Phones in Katrinaaffected areas is the American thing to do. Push the free minutesto prepay and to CORPORATE customers as well. Give them to everyone,now. Let this place communicate and continue RESCUE, continue RELIEF,and continue to REBUILD in the longterm.

Alltell.com is continuing to produce an organized, informed and effectiveresponse to Hurricaine Katrina Relief issues.

http://www.alltell.com/corporate/media/0905hurricanerelief.html

Other Mobile Phone Providers are thinking and acting, check their homepages.

HERE ARE THE EMAILS for the FCC bigwigs, email them to get free minutes for Katrina devestated area codes -

I don't want to attack the phone companies.I just want all of us to send some suggestions as to how they can help.Ask the Mobile Phone companies for what we need, free airtime,unemcumbered with their marketing schemes.

Email the customer service departments of all the Mobile Phonecompanies you can think of. Gather their customer service EMAILS, their Media reps emails. Forward all of this.

Check knowledgeable communities on the internet that addressthe needs of Katrina Victims and Refugees. Ask the phone companiesfor what we need, free airtime, unemcumbered with their marketing schemes.

Ask the Mobile Phone companies to establish an account toDONATE FREE MINUTES from YOUR PLAN.Ask them to MATCH YOUR DONATION.

Thus, any injured or incapacitated person with a phone, and any phonethey might FIND that is working will get them through. Many to manycommunication.

Auto location of the looters who hunker down can be facilitated,they can be saved also, rather than slaughtered.

Additional resuce is enabled which is critical as resuce optionscontinue to approache the point of no return for some stranded infirm, etc..

People will come through the network.That's what this is about right, people!

Where there are discarded phones, their are babies, children,women and men. The phones need to have minutes.

Guard dogs can hear phones dialing, ringing, etc..

Guard electronics can sniff and locate the phones, as well as theability of a Guard dog to smell a warm cell phone, the warm batteryand it's characteristic smell.

These phones are lifelines and key to restoring order.

A lot of young and elderly will die of dehydration in the next days.Refugees need to FIND THE RESOURCES, they need minutes.Many of them are lost, out of state, with no transportation.The Katrina refugees need free minutes and free airtime.Those needing rescue need those minutes.

The automated and global scripting of a push of free minutes to all cell phoneswill most importantly transcend the racial and class structures.

This is DISASTER RELIEF and should neverapproach the line over which NATURAL DISASTER PROFITEERINGis approached, lonterm or shorterm, by any company.

Jockying for market position at the demise of the American People,will be observed if it is present.

Schemes to give out free phones to lock in desparate customers in themonths ahead are PUTRID. Schemes to get customer database informationfor Phone Marketing departments is off limits here.

Keep it on the up and up, script the automated push of the free minutesto all Mobile Phones in the Katrina devestated area codes and evacuation routes,gloabally. Now.

Mobile phones users in Katrina affected Area Codes,(especially prepay users) are demographically and geographically,out of minutes, have no airtime, on second batteries.The lucky have some capability to re-charge.

Big Mobile Phone providers are proposing a limited number of methodsto deal with a National Catastrophe impacting oil and food exports and imports.The oil reserves themselves are in and amongst this destruction in the salt domes.

Old School, the phone companies could easily pump free minutes into all phoneswith the same programs they send you all that spam with.

An immidiate and global distribution of FREE MINUTES and FREE AIRTIMEto all phones in the Katrina devestated Area codes and Katrina evacuation routesmust be implemented now. Out of minutes = no communication = disorganization

Physical distribution of cards will create a fast and dangerous trade market.The people who distribute these cards could seed more volitility into this situation.The people distributing these cards in the long-term are in a dangerous physical situation.

The people of this nation affected by National Security and National Disaster issuesas a result of Hurricaine Katrina must have MANY to MANY communication NOW.

Our phone service is so capitalized and compartmentalized,it seems very inneffective at this time compared to a wide open100% free phone system. And I'm not advocating a 100%free phone market of any sort, I just want you to thinkabout the difference it would make and how closewe can get to that, in the shortest amount of time.For the purposes of Katrina RESCUE and RELIEF.

Young people with prepay 'Virgin Mobile' phones as well asthe markets of Tracone, prepay markets, are not being affordedthe opportunity to use their EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION DEVICES,especially in the long-term. These markets must be sustainedwith the Automatic scripting of free minutes pumped into the phones,globally with no regard for economic strata, race, etc..

Again, the pre-pay Market is made up of the poor, elderly, infirm,handicapped, low and fixed income, children, etc ...

The phones are lifelines to order in the short and longterm.

The FCC must require all phone companies to fill all phones in thearea codes affected by Katrina, especially flooded New Orleans,with free minutes. This must be done globally withoutregard for race or economic class. The AUTOMATED scriptingon Mobile phone service providers administrative computers topush free minutes and free airtime globally to all Mobile Phones in Katrinaaffected areas is the American thing to do. Push the free minutesto prepay and to CORPORATE customers as well. Give them to everyone,now. Let this place communicate and continue RESCUE, continue RELIEF,and continue to REBUILD in the longterm.

Alltell.com is continuing to produce an organized, informed and effectiveresponse to Hurricaine Katrina Relief issues.

http://www.alltell.com/corporate/media/0905hurricanerelief.html

Other Mobile Phone Providers are thinking and acting, check their homepages.

HERE ARE THE EMAILS for the FCC bigwigs, email them to get free minutes for Katrina devestated area codes -

I don't want to attack the phone companies.I just want all of us to send some suggestions as to how they can help.Ask the Mobile Phone companies for what we need, free airtime,unemcumbered with their marketing schemes.

Email the customer service departments of all the Mobile Phonecompanies you can think of. Gather their customer service EMAILS, their Media reps emails. Forward all of this.

Check knowledgeable communities on the internet that addressthe needs of Katrina Victims and Refugees. Ask the phone companiesfor what we need, free airtime, unemcumbered with their marketing schemes.

Ask the Mobile Phone companies to establish an account toDONATE FREE MINUTES from YOUR PLAN.Ask them to MATCH YOUR DONATION.

Thus, any injured or incapacitated person with a phone, and any phonethey might FIND that is working will get them through. Many to manycommunication.

Auto location of the looters who hunker down can be facilitated,they can be saved also, rather than slaughtered.

Additional resuce is enabled which is critical as resuce optionscontinue to approache the point of no return for some stranded infirm, etc..

People will come through the network.That's what this is about right, people!

Where there are discarded phones, their are babies, children,women and men. The phones need to have minutes.

Guard dogs can hear phones dialing, ringing, etc..

Guard electronics can sniff and locate the phones, as well as theability of a Guard dog to smell a warm cell phone, the warm batteryand it's characteristic smell.

These phones are lifelines and key to restoring order.

A lot of young and elderly will die of dehydration in the next days.Refugees need to FIND THE RESOURCES, they need minutes.Many of them are lost, out of state, with no transportation.The Katrina refugees need free minutes and free airtime.Those needing rescue need those minutes.

The automated and global scripting of a push of free minutes to all cell phoneswill most importantly transcend the racial and class structures.

This is DISASTER RELIEF and should neverapproach the line over which NATURAL DISASTER PROFITEERINGis approached, lonterm or shorterm, by any company.

Jockying for market position at the demise of the American People,will be observed if it is present.

Schemes to give out free phones to lock in desparate customers in themonths ahead are PUTRID. Schemes to get customer database informationfor Phone Marketing departments is off limits here.

Keep it on the up and up, script the automated push of the free minutesto all Mobile Phones in the Katrina devestated area codes and evacuation routes,gloabally. Now.